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Quote by Virginia Woolf
As for my next book, I am going to hold myself from writing it til

As for my next book, I am going to hold myself from writing it till I have it impending in me: grown heavy in my mind like a ripe pear; pendant, gravid, asking to be cut or it will fall. – Virginia Woolf

Other quotes by Virginia Woolf

If we help an educated mans daughter to go to Cambridge are we not forcing her to think not about education but about war? – not how she can learn, but how she can fight in order that she might win the same advantages as her brothers? – Virginia Woolf

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Education
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Virginia Woolf
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There is much to support the view that it is clothes that wear us and not we them; we may make them take the mould of arm or breast, but they would mould our hearts, our brains, our tongues to their liking. – Virginia Woolf

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Clothing
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Yet it is in our idleness, in our dreams, that the submerged truth sometimes comes to the top. – Virginia Woolf

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Dreams
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Other Quotes from
Writing
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I heard someone tried the monkeys-on-typewriters bit trying for the plays of William Shakespeare, but all they got was the collected works of Francis Bacon. – Bill Hoest (1926–1988)

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Writing
[G]usto thrives on freedom, and freedom in art, as in life, is the result of a discipline imposed by ourselves. Moreover, any writer overwhelmingly honest about pleasing himself is almost sure to please others. – Marianne Moore (1887–1972), lecture, 1948

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Writing

Ink and paper are sometimes passionate lovers, oftentimes brother and sister, and occasionally mortal enemies. – Terri Guillemets

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Writing

The pages are still blank, but there is a miraculous feeling of the words being there, written in invisible ink and clamoring to become visible. – Vladimir Nabakov

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Writing

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Being famous gets me good concert tickets, good tables in restaurants, good seats at sporting events and thats really about it. – Fran Drescher

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The best prophet is common sense, our native wit. – Euripides

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Buyers decide in the first eight seconds of seeing a home if theyre interested in buying it. Get out of your car, walk in their shoes and see what they see within the first eight seconds. – Barbara Corcoran

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I have 23 top players and they are all ready to put on the jersey and work on the pitch and that makes you happy and then you have peace of mind. – Diego Maradona

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